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Squatter, selector and storekeeper: a history of the Darling Downs, 1859-93

Waterson, D. B. (Duncan Bruce)

Year: c1968.

Publisher: Sydney University Press.

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Frontmatter

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Part One SQUATTERS AND STOREKEEPERS

1 The Home of the Pure Merino

2 Rents, Resumptions and Rackets

3 Inside and Out

4 Town and Down

Part Two THE SELECTORS

5 Myths and Realities

6 Teuton and Scot

7 Black Soil and Summer Rain

8 Storekeeper and Banks

9 Middlemen, Millers and Markets

10 Associations and Alliances

Part Three PERSONALITIES, PROPERTY AND PUBLIC WORKS

11 The Quality of Representation

12 The Electoral System in Operation

13 Voting Behaviour and Group Politics on the Downs

RETROSPECT 1859-93

APPENDIXES

I Ownership of the Darling Downs Settled District Great stations, 1859-93

II Changing Lease Ownership of Ten Darling Downs Unsettled District Runs, 1860-93

III Pre-emptive Selections under the 1847 Orders-in-Council, Darling Downs Settled District, 1860-74

IV '"The Dummies" Charter'—Free Selection before Survey, 1867

V Regulations Dealing with Applications for Certificates of Fulfilment of Conditional Purchases, 1875

VI Darling Downs Land Exchanges, 1877-82

VII Darling Downs Freehold Estates and Stock Ownership, 1888 and 1892

VIII Darling Downs Freehold Estates Re-purchased, 1894-1916

IX Darling Downs Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, 1890

X 'Covenant' and 'Objects and Platform' of the Queensland Farmers' Alliance, 1891

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Title:

Squatter, selector and storekeeper : a history of the Darling Downs, 1859-93 by D. B. Waterson.

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Waterson, D. B. (Duncan Bruce)

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Squatter, selector and storekeeper : a history of the Darling Downs, 1859-93 by D. B. Waterson.
Waterson, D. B. (Duncan Bruce)
Sydney: Sydney University Press, c1968.

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